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When he got there he discovered the jeep was stuck after bursting a tire, and offered to help get it out of the way.

Elsewhere, four Israeli border guards were injured near Jerusalem after a knifeman made his way into a police base.

Israeli border police stand guard outside a base in annexed east Jerusalem after four officers were wounded during a stabbing attack inside on November 14, 2018

The assailant was seriously wounded as he was overpowered by officers during the rare attack inside a security force base late on Wednesday.

The attacker, who was not immediately identified, had scaled a fence around the base between the Palestinian neighbourhood of Jabel Mukabar and the settler district of Armon Hanatziv before being spotted.

Local media reported that one of the Israeli soldiers was injured by friendly fire, but police would not confirm or deny this.

A wave of stabbing attacks against Israelis by lone-wolf Palestinian assailants erupted in 2015 but has since become sporadic.